According to a recent Cisco global study, hybrid work has been found to improve the overall happiness, work-life balance, and performance of Malaysian employees.
60% of Malaysian employees believe that the quality of work has improved and 55% felt that their productivity has enhanced.
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What you should know
- 60% of Malaysian employees believe that the quality of work has improved and 55% of them felt that their productivity has enhanced.
- Over 79% of respondents said hybrid and remote working has improved various aspects of it.
- A comprehensive office management system is a key enabler of growth in the hybrid workplace.
Improve employee well-being
Cisco research examined the impact of hybrid working on five categories of well-being – emotional, financial, mental, physical, and social well-being – with over 79% of respondents saying hybrid and remote working has improved various aspects of it.
Flexible working hour makes 79% of Malaysian employees have improved work-life balance, and 72% of respondents believe their physical fitness has improved with remote working.
Also, 80% of respondents indicate that remote working has improved family relationships as it has shortened working hours than before. 44% of respondents reporting customizing their work schedules has helped them spend more time with friends, resulting in stronger friendships.
Workplace Flexibility matters
Leaders need to rethink how to cultivate an inclusive culture, place employees – their experience, engagement, and well-being – at the center, and modernize their networking and security infrastructure to provide a seamless, secure and inclusive employee experience,
Hana Raja, managing director, Cisco Malaysia
Cisco Malaysia managing director Hana encourages leaders should focus on the well-being of their employees in the future, including providing flexibility. The reason is that flexible work allows employees have more time to take rest so to improve the quality of work.
Hybrid work also fulfills different types of co-workers’ needs, such as new co-workers, as they always need to ask for help. Thus, hybrid work not only improves the overall well-being of employees but also helps to increase their productivity as hybrid work implements technology to support employees to work.
Enhances employee productivity
A hybrid working style includes providing collaboration tools for employees to work remotely and an office management system for employees to use when they return to the office.
The benefits of working with technology are that it provides employees with excellent technical support, and more easily to solve simple and tedious daily tasks.
The last two years have shown us that work is no longer where we go, but what we do. In a hybrid normal, employees and employers in Malaysia are experiencing tangible benefits from improved employee well-being to better productivity and work performance,
Hana Raja, managing director, Cisco Malaysia
In addition, a hybrid office provides a friendly working environment, which makes employees happier and more engaged at work, and has a positive impact on productivity.
Hybrid work: Key working style in Malaysia
For employees, a hybrid work style is very inclusive for them that provides the freedom to choose where they work and how they work.
Therefore, 74% of Malaysian employees want a combination of a remote and in-office hybrid working model in the future, compared to a fully remote (22%) and fully in-office (5%) experience.
Also, based on a Malaysian Employers Federation (MEF) poll, 61.7% of businesses emphasized the need to keep using hybrid work experiences.
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Suggestion for hybrid working
Meanwhile, hybrid work technology has a mature development and will remain critical to enabling a future with increasingly diverse and distributed workforces.
In the Cisco study, 82% of respondents said that networking infrastructure is essential for a seamless working-from-home experience. And 64% of respondents believe having connectivity issues regularly is career-limiting for remote workers.
Therefore, it is a necessity to have a comprehensive collaboration tool or office management system that can help companies in Malaysia to implement hybrid work easily.
For collaboration tools, if you are a director in Malaysia, Microsoft Teams is a good choice for you. It is designed to help teams collaborate and provide real-time conversation windows.
On the other hand, ONES Smart office system is one of the famous management systems that can help you to easily implement hybrid working with ease.
Using ONES, you can easily perform virtual meetings, desk-hoteling, and digital office management with our Room Booking, Desk Booking, and Visitor Management features, in order to improve your office productivity, retain your talents and make your office more secure.
Contact us: hello@ones.software, or visit ONES Software official website for more information: https://ones.software/my/